Xenics nv

600 Cummings Center
#166-Y
Beverly,  MA  01915

United States
https://www.xenics.com/

• Booth: 2437

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Established in Belgium in 2000, Xenics is a designer and manufacturer of infrared sensors, cores and cameras. Xenics offers in-house design and manufacturing SWIR image sensors.

Xenics designs and markets SWIR image sensors, cores and cameras of best-in-class image, both lines-can and area-scan. Worldwide Xenics is a market leader for SWIR imaging where it holds a unique position with the combination of high speed and low noise imagers. Xenics not only specialises in the development of SWIR InGaAs detectors and cameras, but also offers an extensive portfolio of LWIR imagers.

Worldwide Xenics is a market leader for SWIR imaging where it holds a unique position with the combination of high speed and low noise imagers.

 Press Releases

• Xenics introduces Ceres T 1280 (20220613)

  Xenics introduces Ceres T 1280

  Leuven, Belgium, 18^th January 2022 --- Ceres T 1280 has today been announced as the new high-performance, high-resolution thermographic long-wave infrared (LWIR) camera from Xenics.

  Xenics is Europe’s leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared sensors, cameras and customized imaging solutions from the short-wave infrared (SWIR) to the LWIR realm. Xenics keeps on releasing innovative products, demonstrating its leading position in the infrared market.

  Ceres T 1280 is a SXGA (1280x1024 pixels) LWIR camera dedicated to thermography with very high accuracy and stability performance. With Ceres T 1280, Xenics is expanding its high-performance thermographic camera family. This introduction is the answer for highly demanding applications such as process monitoring, industrial machine vision, medical or scientific, where high resolution is requested as well as high-end thermographic capabilities.

  Xenics opens a new era for thermography

  The Ceres T family has already solved a major issue for thermographic system implementations by providing a stable and highly repeatable measurement solution. With its new member Ceres T 1280, customers can reach the ultimate resolution offering highly accurate spatial information. Customers will thus be able to get a much more precise temperature distribution to efficiently control their process.

  Towards a new standard for thermography

  Most of the thermographic systems today are limited to VGA format and manufacturer efforts are based on temperature accuracy. Xenics already released the Ceres T 640 a few months ago, pushing the limits of thermographic performance. It has thus been possible to leverage all the development and innovation made for this product to propose the step further: the high resolution. In addition, these two products are compatible from a control/command and electrical interface perspective enabling up- or downgrade of the system with minimal effort.

  “With Ceres T 1280, Xenics offers a highly stable and accurate thermographic camera that gives unbeatable capabilities for temperature distribution resolution” says Frédéric Aubrun, Xenics’ Chief Commercial Officer. “Customers will not only measure temperature, but they will also be able to precisely determine the spatial location of the measurement. Moreover, they will be able to use a much larger field of view which enables inspection of larger areas and potentially increase the system throughout”.

  Based on technology specifically developed for the Ceres T family, Ceres T 1280 benefits from automatic compensation of internal temperature drift, including within the optical path: this makes it very simple to use, avoiding any additional long and complex calibration. Moreover, thermographic capabilities are embedded onboard, with the ability to store 2 calibration packs. Designed for industrial uses, Ceres T 1280 interface is either GigE with PoE or CameraLink^TM and is GenICam^TM compliant. It benefits from a compact form factor and a low weight (64.5x67.6x83.5 mm³ and 583 g without optic for GigE interface and 64.5x67.6x81 mm³ and 534 g without optic for CameraLink^TM one). Xenics’ user-friendly Xeneth GUI and its GenICam^TM SDK complete the offer so that customers can spare time in integrating the camera and really focus on their added values: data analysis and process monitoring.

  Thanks to Ceres T 1280, it is now possible to gather high thermographic performance and high resolution. This sets the new standard for:

  • Industrial application, where the stability of measurements and high resolution allows more precise thermal inspection and better process monitoring as well as larger surface analysis,
  • Medical application where resolution and simplicity are requested.

  With Ceres T 1280, Xenics demonstrates its innovation capacity and paves the way for improved thermography applications.

  

  

• Xenics expands its Bobcat product family and makes SWIR cameras affordable (20220703)

  Xenics expands its Bobcat product family and makes SWIR cameras affordable

  Leuven, Belgium, 17 September 2021

  Today, Xenics announced the addition of new camera members to the popular Bobcat 320 family, a best seller in the industry, including an extremely affordable SWIR camera.

  Xenics is Europe’s leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared sensors, cameras and customized imaging solutions from the short-wave infrared (SWIR) to the long-wave infrared (LWIR) realm.

  The newly expanded Bobcat 320 family consists of high-performance SWIR cameras with a 320x256 resolution for industrial applications. In a move to further complement the offer, Xenics has introduced three new cost-effective camera options in addition to the Bobcat 320 series for a complete solution in the 320x256 resolution space:

  • Bobcat+ 320: an improved, high performance SWIR camera for demanding applications with an option for extension into visible wavelengths (vSWIR).
  • Bobcat 320 TE0: an uncooled (TECless) camera that offers SWIR performance at the lowest price.
  • Bobcat 320 WL: an uncooled (TECless) and windowless (WL) camera to minimize the number of optical elements and consequently internal reflections. This camera is ideally suited for applications such as laser beam analysis or wavefront sensing.

  Bobcat+ 320: Xenics improves performance to address the needs of demanding applications

  As application requirements and capability differentiation become more stringent, a simple and cost-effective camera with improved performances is the answer. This is particularly true for hyperspectral applications or spectroscopy, for machine vision in the semiconductor industry or for surveillance applications.

  In these systems there is a need for larger dynamic range, IWR (integrate while read) read out mode to improve the speed vs integration time trade off, and optionally, a wavelength extension into the visible range (vSWIR). As an answer to these requirements, Xenics now proposes the Bobcat+ 320. In addition to Bobcat 320 performance, customers will benefit from:

  • Two read out modes (ITR (integrate then read) and IWR mode): in IWR mode, with overlapping read and integrate phases, you can optimize the integration (exposure) time for a given frame rate requirement. Moreover, “By minimizing the blind-time, you never lose a photon,” said Pieter Deroo, Camera Development Director at Xenics.
  • Two selectable gains including a High Dynamic Range configuration with 60dB of dynamic range.
  • An optional extension into visible wavelengths allows access to vSWIR spectral coverage (400 to 1700nm) for better integration, enhanced detection capabilities and reduced price.

  Bobcat 320 TE0: Xenics introduces the ultimate low-cost SWIR camera

  As a leader in the SWIR camera market, Xenics believes that the price should never limit the use of a SWIR camera in applications where SWIR clearly is the best technical solution. This is the reason for the Bobcat 320 TE0 introduction.

  With a camera that can even be below €5000 (unit price in volume order of 20 units), SWIR is now affordable for most industrial applications and customers will not have to limit themselves to visible or NIR cameras: “When SWIR is the technical solution, Xenics’ SWIR will be the chosen solution” said Marc Larive, Strategic Marketing Manager at Xenics.

  Bobcat 320 WL: Xenics, listening to customers’ needs, offers a camera with windowless detector

  The third new version of Bobcat 320 that Xenics introduces today is equipped with an uncooled and windowless detector. This is the result of a real demand from the market. For laser measurement (typically laser beam profiling), unwanted reflections off the optical surfaces should be limited in order to avoid interference fringes in the image: therefore, the windowless Bobcat completely cancels out the reflections off the top and bottom surface of a detector window. The same advantage holds true for laser wavefront sensing applications.

  Finally, as the camera is also TECless, both the Bobcat 320 TE0 and WL are in the same price range.

  All three new cameras are proposed with GigE interface which is a common standard for industrial applications and use the same mechanical and electrical interface as the standard Bobcat 320. They all benefit from Xenics user interface software Xeneth which makes them very simple to configure and use, thus reducing the R&D time and efforts.

  Marc Larive said: “Xenics is market-driven: the three new products are introduced to our customers who want more than just a SWIR camera. They want a real answer to their needs. The very low cost of the TE0 and WL cameras will open up new applications in previously price-prohibitive markets.” With this family extension, Xenics confirms its leading position in the SWIR market.

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